erland;368455 Wrote: > I'm sure I'm going to regret getting into this, but here we go... > > "Guessing" might have a different meaning in English than Swedish that > I'm not aware of, but to me "Guessing" means that there is no way to > know the outcome based on the facts available. > > In the SqueezeCenter VA logic case, there are a very clear set of > rules, so you will know the outcome of the logic if you look at the > values in the tags available. Sure a few months ago, you didn't know > the rules, so it might have seemed like it was guessing. However, it > really wasn't, it was just following the same rules as it do today. > > To me, this means that SqueezeCenter is NOT guessing, it has logic that > follows a set of rules to detect if an album is a compilation or not.
this isn't a language problem, its a context problem. i already said SC does EXACTLY what the rules for it tell it to do. I AGREE that the TRUE / FALSE proposition is EXACTLY followed, and that its always predictable/reproduceable as to the outcome... ANY artist mismatch, (eg. differing mp3 TPE1 values) results in SC saying its a comp, (providing other relevant tags are blank). there is no disagreement on that point by anyone as far as i can tell. the problem is that the TRUE / FALSE proposition is MEANINGLESS. it is MEANINGLESS to decide if its true or false if there are differing TPE1 values or not. TOTALLY MEANINGLESS. why? b/c half the time the rule determines TRUE, in my case, it was WRONG. it was calling things a comp that were not in reality a comp! so the outcome as to its accuracy in being right in a MEANINGFUL way, can only be described as GUESSING, since it delivered 50% false positives. what is unclear about this??? i mean this is starting to get surreal. here's an amusing example to illustrate the point: lets say i tell you, erland, to go through 1000 image files and i want you to determine which ones are "hot chicks." you say "how?" i say "here's the rule: ANY nudity means its 'hot' chicks." so you go thru the pics, and 33 have nudity and so you say "by rule, these are hot chicks, here you go." and so i look at them, and i say, "well, 17 of them ARE hot chicks, but the other 16 aren't! 10 are fat, 1 is old, and 1 is a guy!" and you say "well, i know, but the rule was ANY nudity." do you recognize the problem now? the rule is FLAWED and guesses, the EXECUTION of the rule may not be flawed or guess if judged by the confines and context of the rule and code itself, but it is in the worthiness (or lack thereof) of its results. imagine if medical tests were allowed to be wrong, and someone said "well, its not the tests fault, the test did what its designed to." what worth is there in that if someone get poisoned as a result? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56078 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
